https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6 Bridget Lockhart / 7th Hour U.S. 1 History en-us 2021-01-26 03:13:02 UTC 2026-02-26 02:37:46 UTC hello@padlet.com bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124890182 The nation's first peacetime military draft that required all men between 21 and 35 to register for the draft. The Selective Service provided 10 million soldiers for the all-out war on two global fronts. ]]> 2021-01-26 03:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124890182 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124910468 More than 6 million women entered the work force. Women proved to war industries that they could operate machinery as well as men and were only paid 60% as much as the men doing the same job. Women were also allowed to enlist and worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians and pilots. ]]> 2021-01-26 03:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124910468 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124920173 Minority groups such as African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans faced discrimination. They were restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and did not have basic citizen rights. 
Mexican Americans - 300,000 joined the arm forces 
African Americans - 1 million joined and were restricted to mostly noncombat roles. 
Asian Americans - 13,000 joined arm forces 
Japanese Americans - 33,000 joined and served as spies
Native Americans - 25,000 joined in armed services 800 of those were women. ]]> 2021-01-26 03:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124920173 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124932273 The OPA fought inflation by freezing wages, prices and rents in order to reduce consumer demands. Congress raised income tax rates and extended taxes to million of citizens who did not pay it before. This started the rationing of foods like meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar and coffee. ]]> 2021-01-26 03:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124932273 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124941147 The OPA set up a system for rationing. Households were given ration books with coupons to be used when buying scare goods. These scare goods included meat, shoes, sugar, coffee and gas. Most Americans accepted the rationing as a way to contribute to the war effort. Workers started to ride bikes or carpooled to work and many families coped with the shortages.]]> 2021-01-26 04:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124941147 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124951047 The Department of the Treasury started issuing war bonds to help raise money for the war effort and keep the inflation low. The government encouraged citizens to use their extra cash to buy these bonds and in these efforts they succeeded in keeping the inflation below 30%. This was about half of WWI's inflation.]]> 2021-01-26 04:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124951047 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124965572 President Roosevelt felt that if Britain fell the Axis powers would conquer the world. In order to prevent this the U.S. felt they needed to defeat the Axis powers as well. This feeling became known as what Roosevelt called "the great arsenal of democracy." However by late 1940 Britain had no more cash to contribute to the arsenal of democracy. Because of this Roosevelt came up with the lend-lease policy which allowed the president to lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States." ]]> 2021-01-26 04:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124965572 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124983117 The WPB felt the responsibility to ensure that the armed forces and war industries would receive all the resources they would need to win the war. They decided which companies would convert to wartime production, distributed raw materials to key industries, organized drives to collect scrap iron, tin cans, paper, rags, and cooking fat that would be recycled into war goods. They rationed fuel and materials that proved vital to the war effort. Some of the items rationed included gas, heating oil, metals, rubber and plastic. ]]> 2021-01-26 04:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124983117 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124999221 The OWI was used to spread propaganda. It documented the U.S. mobilization for the war effort in any type of entertainment. This propaganda was used in films, photographs, radio programs and posters. They focused on training for war work, increasing the number of women in the workforce and civil right struggles such as the internment of Japanese Americans and participation of African American soldiers in the armed forces. ]]> 2021-01-26 04:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1124999221 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1125021497 The Japanese American internment was the forced relocation of Japanese Americans to detention camps. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. War Department suspected that these Japanese Americans might be spies for Japan. The government rounded up Japanese Americans especially ones that lived along the West Coast and placed them in detention centers. These Japanese Americans faced cruel treatment based off of racism and discrimination the U.S. citizens felt for these Japanese Americans. These camps that they were held at were very similar to the concentration camps in Germany.]]> 2021-01-26 04:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bridgetlockhart/tze4jw1cdsf282l6/wish/1125021497